286. Your Toolkit for Taming Self-Imposed Limitations

In this podcast episode, Lesley Logan engages in a thoughtful discussion about anxiety, introversion, and imposter syndrome with Ryan Lindner. Detailing a pivotal life-changing event, Ryan shares how he transformed his outlook, the inspiration for his book, ‘The Half-Known Life’, and how he overcame self-doubt.

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In this episode you will learn about:

• Ryan's journey as personal development coach
• The misconceptions about fixing introversion and anxiety.
• Why people with anxiety seek approval and please others.
• The importance of defining relationships from the start.
• How to manage pre-talk anxiety and foster self-trust

Episode References/Links:

• Follow Ryan on IG
• Ryan Lindner’s website
• The Half-Known Life (book) by Ryan

Guest Bio:

Ryan Lindner is a personal development specialist who has worked as a behavioral coach for clients and top organizations all over the world. After two sudden, unexplained cardiac arrests at a young age, he began to explore different perspectives with clients that come with any profound, life-changing event. If you aren’t living, you’re dying. It wasn’t uncommon for Ryan to teeter on unconsciousness even, at times, while working with a client, requiring him to prioritize his own energy and time masterfully, and assist clients to do the same. 

Ryan has conducted thousands of coaching sessions, has led operations for a major leadership and organizational change company, and manages learning and development projects for companies to reshape their customer experience.

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Episode Transcript:

Ryan Lindner 0:00  

And I learned through working with executives is that you know we a lot of people in the working force especially in corporate America think you know all these big executives have it all figured out all the time. They're the scary executives but no, they don't have it figured out a whole lot. They just they're confident they're confident and they're not knowing they're confident. And they can do one thing that I really struggled with anxiety and that's be okay in uncertainty.

Lesley Logan 0:31  

Welcome to the Be It Till You See It podcast where we talk about taking messy action, knowing that perfect is boring. I'm Lesley Logan, Pilates instructor and fitness business coach. I've trained thousands of people around the world and the number one thing I see stopping people from achieving anything is self-doubt. My friends, action brings clarity and it's the antidote to fear. Each week, my guest will bring bold, executable, intrinsic and targeted steps that you can use to put yourself first and Be It Till You See It. It's a practice, not a perfect. Let's get started. 

Lesley Logan 1:12  

Okay, where are my introverts at? Where are my peeps who feel like impostor syndrome has got them down? I have a great, this guest is for you. He's actually also just an incredible journey of his career and what he's gotten to but we mostly discussed discussed like, impostor syndrome and getting over yourself and living in uncertainty. And people on pedestals like this is like the thing. And so if you are someone who is like just really having a hard time, not worrying about being an introvert or having impostor syndrome, or even just like letting people intimidate you, or my people, pleasers at, we've got something there for you as well. So Ryan Linder is our guest today, he is the author of The Half-Known Life. And so we don't get too much into his book, but I am very intrigued to read it. I'm actually really excited about it, because he's had this incredible journey. And, and it was, he said, That was a 10-year journey for this book. So you know, that's going to be a good one. I am incredibly overjoyed with what we talked about. And I really think it is a nice pep talk that you need on this day. So here is Ryan Linder. 

Lesley Logan 2:20  

All right, Be It babes. I'm really excited because I know how much you guys like to talk about impostor syndrome. I know how many DMs I get about oh my gosh, oh, we should do this. But like, I just have so much impostor syndrome. And so when I actually found today's guest, I found that like, he's actually someone who knows impostor syndrome really well, and has managed to make an amazing life for himself getting over it and has an incredible book for us all to read. So, Ryan Lindner is our guest today. And I'm just so excited. Can you tell everyone who you are? And how you got here? What made you get into this whole role and go through this journey that you've been on?

Ryan Lindner 2:53  

Yeah, thanks for having me. Super excited to chat about this. You know, growing up, introvert, super introvert, had just awful, awful anxiety growing up. And I was drawn to, you know, personal development, but pretty much anything I could sink my teeth, and that would help me sort of move beyond that. It was just such a struggle for so many years. I mean, I would I remember giving talks when I was really young, and I'd be it would be so bad. I would like sweat through my shirt. It was like that bad. It looked like I took a shower. It was terrible. 

Lesley Logan 3:26  

I feel like I feel like a lot of people can go yep, I know that.

Ryan Lindner 3:31  

And chronic worrier, chronic worrier. And really struggled to find kind of where I where I fit in, never didn't know what I wanted to do with my life, and tried to find somewhere where I might fit. And after about a million jobs, not too much of an exaggeration, but pretty close. I fell in to coaching. And I didn't know that was actually a career option. Never, I never knew that was a possibility. But I found out that I just I could empathize and sort of relate to people really well who were going through that. And that felt like well, you know, I can embrace this. Maybe I can turn that into something. I got an amazing contract and did coaching sessions for people all over the world even work for a federal contract the military. And then I started working with organizations really developing training content, leading trainings for major major companies, building out their training departments helping with their culture transformation, helping train managers so that they, you know, most companies treat people like roles and not people. Yeah. And I would track things like turnover, you know, how do you reduce turnover? How do you so it grew and sort of progressed over the years into things that I would have never ever guessed.

Lesley Logan 4:57  

What I what an incredible journey like like to go from like, all these different like, Oh, I'm coaching now I'm coaching corporations now I'm coaching the military now I mean, like, also, like exciting and I imagine like, there were there are probably some moments like oh my gosh, I'm I'm doing this now you know what I mean? Like so how did like how did you? How did you get over? Like? Did you just outgrow the anxiety? Like what was the journey there?

Ryan Lindner 5:25  

A lot of people think of anxiety and this is just, you know m